For those computer geeks who often need to take a friend down or reinstall the operating system, the long waits each time you install a Windows system are tantamount to one torture. Although there are partition mirroring software such as Ghost, but each computer configuration is different, the Windows detection of hardware is not the same, coupled with the unique activation strategy of Windows XP/2003, which seems to make Ghost useless. In fact, these are not unsolved. As long as the automatic answer file is combined with Ghost, we can also create a Windows package for all computers, so that it takes only ten minutes to complete the tedious installation of the previous few hours. .
First, uninstall the driver
We all know that the first time Windows is installed, the system will detect the current computer hardware and install the appropriate drivers, and therefore have a normal running Windows Before the packet is packaged, it is necessary to uninstall various drivers, and it is also necessary to use the final package to be used in other computers.
1. Uninstalling the hardware driver
Uninstalling the hardware driver is not free to uninstall in the device manager, it must be in a certain order, usually we can refer to the network card, USB device, sound card, graphics card, display and other steps. When uninstalling the driver, first select a device from the device manager, then right-click and select the "Uninstall" command from the pop-up menu.
2. Changing ACPI Properties
ACPI is the meaning of advanced power management. Although most computers today support ACPI, the ACPI types of different motherboards are different. If you use different ACPIs from other people's computers, then There is a problem that the computer cannot be soft-shutdown, so be sure to change the ACPI attribute. To change the ACPI properties, first select "Computer → ACPI Uniprocessor PC" from the Explorer, then select the "Update Driver" command from the right mouse button menu, and select "From List or Specify" in the Driver Update Wizard that appears. Location installation → Do not search, I have to choose the program to be installed, then you can see the window shown in Figure 1 (Figure 1), change the ACPI type to "Standard PC".
3. Changing the drive properties
In the process of creating a Windows package, it is very important to change the properties of the disk drive. If you ignore this step, other computers will not boot the computer properly after installing Windows with this package. Restart failure. So we need to change the IDE controller to a standard dual-channel PCI IDE controller to make it suitable for today's different types of motherboards. First find the IDE controller currently in use from Explorer's "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller", right click the mouse and select the "Change Driver" command from the pop-up menu, then in the Driver Update Wizard that appears Select "Install from a list or specific location → Do not search, I have to choose the program to install", and finally select the "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller" item from the window.